Remove Page URLs from Google Search Index

March 7, 2012

Steps for removing one or more URLs of your website from Google’s search index. This will keep these pages from appearing in Google’s search results.

Sometimes, you may want to remove one or more URLs of your website from the Google search results. There could be any number of reasons for such a decision. For example, you may not want people to come of a particular page of your website. But if this page is already indexed by Google, then people may arrive on it through the search engine.

Sometimes, mass removal of URLs from Google’s index is desired when you make structural change in your website. For example, if you have a site on WordPress platform, and if you have been using both tags and categories –one day you might decide in favor of categories and do away with all the tags. In such a scenario, you would want to remove all the “mywordpresssite.com/tag/” URLs from Google’s index.

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